Hawaii lawmakers back the creation of ‘Islam Day’

Isn’t an official “Islam Day” (celebrated just 13 days after 9-11) against the Constitutional principle of separation between church & state?:

Hawaii lawmakers back the creation of ‘Islam Day’

HONOLULU — Hawaii’s state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to celebrate “Islam Day” — over the objections of a few lawmakers who said they didn’t want to honor a religion connected to Sept. 11, 2001. The Senate’s two Republicans argued that a minority of Islamic extremists have killed many innocents in terrorist attacks.

“I recall radical Islamists around the world cheering the horrors of 9/11. That is the day all civilized people of all religions should remember,” said Republican Sen. Fred Hemmings to the applause of more than 100 people gathered in the Senate to oppose a separate issue — same-sex civil unions.
The resolution to proclaim Sept. 24, 2009, as Islam Day passed the Senate on a 22-3 vote. It had previously passed the House.”

“In October 2007, I had a lawsuit and a restraining order brought against me by seven Dallas-area Islamic organizations, who objected to an article that I had written for FrontPage. Not one of the groups was mentioned in the article. It was concerning information I had personally discovered linking the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) to the financing of terrorism abroad. My allegations regarding this were and are backed up by irrefutable proof.

Yet seven groups who do not like me, who do not like the fact that I work to expose organizations and individuals tied to terror, are suing me, making the false claim that I wrote about them when I did not, and have obtained a restraining order against me, when I have never posed any threat to them – or anyone else for that matter. Only I received the threat….”